French aircraft will begin reconnaissance flights over Iraq

French aircraft will begin reconnaissance flights over Iraq on Monday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said before a conference bringing together about 30 countries to discuss how to how to cooperate in the fight against Islamic State militants.
"We told the Iraqis we were available and asked them for authorisation (to fly over Iraq)," Fabius told France Inter radio.
The first flights from a French base in Abu Dhabi would begin on Monday
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